Histrography Of Medieval Europe And Its Culture

Histrography of medieval Europe and its culture

Introduction.

As Alonso Moreno reflects in his Spanish romantic historiography, he mentions that at the beginning of the 19th century there had been no awareness of the differences between the history of literary and scientific field. Including scholars who referred to a mythical historiography. While it is true, between the 10th and XIII centuries, there was a first “Renaissance”, establishing in the Middle Ages a thought based on the dialectic and logical reasoning.

If we take into account, the inclination of various villages to count their way of thought and produce a mark on which they demonstrate how they would solve their inconveniences through the need to achieve development. Also, what has been able to establish a connection or union and even a dialogue between one culture and another has been thanks to the works and products of each society. We understand that need for communication and expression as in the literary, artistic and architecture manifestation. In the various places in Europe, but especially in the monasteries it was where such important tasks were performed as the conservation, maintenance and dissemination of those cultural expressions of the medieval era.

Similarly, the origin of universities was established, which would not be other than episcopal schools. In libraries the copy of classic works is structured, translating Greek and Arab works into Latin, thus organizing a manuscript culture.

Using this same system, poetry and the various juggers reproduced to modern language made it available and thus know the development of a culture of that time of study.

Developing.

Gregorio Arango, a Jesuit historian and priest teaches us that the Middle Ages was the integrity time, because there was an advance in culture and progress, many of the European cities came to the world and the most famous universities were established. It can be seen through study, which is a historical stage so splendid by developments in all aspects, and in general, in constant interest in improving and increasing living conditions and developing a very progressive intellectual and spiritual renewal, although, only a small and very select group of people could devote themselves to artistic or intellectual activities.

By conforming what would be feudal society, and then what would be those humanistic values expressed new qualities, as a domain of itself, contempt for danger, pain and death. It was instructed that the basic virtues for life were faith, value and loyalty to the same or the superior. For all those who did not respect these foundations they had punishments such as isolation and rejection. For those winners of battles or deeds in tournaments they were awarded the recognition of honor and brave.

It is true that in this period there was the creation of the different cavalry orders, as Martín Riquer expresses, that he who wants to fulfill as a gentleman’s figure, should be the image of an ideal man: energetic and skilled in weapons, honestand benign. What was intended at this time was to exalt an epic and brave concept of life and those spiritual and individual merits, manifested in distinction and gentlemenity.

If we take the indication of Alfred Weber, in which he states that the fact of being arranged as a gentleman, a sacrament or blessing of the religious was executed and in this way the responsibility of being in communion was accepted with a spiritual attitude. Not only did he have the duty of dressing weapons or wielding a sword, he was conferred different obligations: such as reaching the sacrifice accordingly of the supreme assets, guaranteeing the protection of the defenseless, having a spirit of commission. In a way the consecrated as a gentleman should be an exemplary figure of a Christian, being his main task of fighting for God and Christianity.

In the Middle Ages an event that was very important was that Pope Urban II would undertake the management of recovering or rescuweapons. Making massive pilgrimages to Holy Land. This event being of great importance for the study and providing information of great value for the subsequent historians and their respective chronicles studied.

In the work the Alexiada;From Ana Comneno, the stories referring to the Crusades are narrated, this chronicler of the time makes a very interesting story in which it refers to how the west, made a march in a single column through Europe towards Asia in thewho took entire families. Dietrich Schwartz comments that in the approximate course of two hundred years six crusades were carried out that encouraged the creation of various military orders, such as the Knights of the Temple, the Knights of the Order of San Juan and the Teutonic Order.

Hugo de Payns in 1119 the gentleman founded a military body to protect the routes and roads to the East. Being one of these groups which would constitute the foundation of the Order of the Knights Templar, this denomination the stole of a fortress located in the site next to the temple of Solomon, in Jerusalem. This order made the construction in the town of Haifa a space to house the pilgrims.

Conclusions.

• The crusades originated an important consequence which is knowledge, this due to contact with the Arabs, their culture and knowledge. Even Europeans came to learn several industrial processes, manufacturing and cultivation. Also, when new animals were known, many of them exotic for Westerners, stimulated the imagination to conceive stories and fables.
• Scripture became a useful tool to power, this conceived in the 10th, XI and XII centuries. This due to the abundance of various political or administrative documents which attest to the administrative, procedural or political act to be carried out. Always without forgetting that, since classical antiquity and in the Middle Ages, especially memory was considered as an art that should continue to undertake. In this way, speakers, philosophers and other European scientists disturbed by the way of increasing memory retention.
• In reference to this, Daniel Boorsstin assures in his work that: Everyone required the art of memory, which, like the other arts, could be cultivated. The memoristic capacity could be perfected, and the virtuous ones were admired who had a highly developed memory .
• The various classic works previously translated, at the time they were transmitted orally, were represented and preserved and all this through the art of memory. Also, those manuscript books were also of fundamental assistance and especially served to maintain, collect, quote and base different knowledge through the thinking of the teachers of the Greco -Roman culture.